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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000466/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- This envelope contains material relating to the famous Zanzibari slave trader Tippu Tip. The material, dating between 1890 and 1895, was sent to Whiteley from Sir R Gray who found it in the Zanzibar Archives. Some material was written by Tippu Tip himself where he describes his raiding travels to Central Africa by means of correspondence to various Europeans, including the explorers Stanley and Livingston, and to Zanzibari slave traders. ( en )
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- Biographical information: Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, known as Tippu Tipp, was a slave trader from Zanzibar who traded between East and Central Africa at the end of 19th century. He was a very powerful man who was befriended by many Europeans explorers. For more on his life see publications listed below.
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- Date of Composition: 1889-1895 AD (1306-1312 A.H.)
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- Languages: Swahili (Roman script)
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- Dialects: KiUnguja
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- Extent: 53 leaves
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- Incipit: I am sending herewith, as promise, a dossier containing papers relating to Tippu Tip from the Zanzibar Archives.
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- Sefu bin Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi was more commonly known as Tippu Tip
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- VIAF (name authority) : Tippu Tip, 1837-1905 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/50024311
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- VIAF (name authority) : Gray, Richard, 1929-2005 : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/7460722
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- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- Zanzibar City
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- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Zimbabwe -- Victoria Falls
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- Africa -- Central Africa -- Congo (Kinshasa) -- Orientale Province -- Boyoma Falls
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- Africa -- Central Africa -- Congo (Kinshasa)
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- Publication information: Tippu Tipp. 1957. Maisha ya Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi yaani Tippu Tip : kwa maneno yake mwenyewe. Imprint held in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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- Publication information: Renault, F. 1987. Tippo Tip : un potentat arabe en Afrique centrale au XIXe siecle. L’Harmattan, Paris.
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- Publication information: Kimena Kekwakwa Kinenge. 1979. Tippo Tip, traitant et sultan du Manyema. Centre de recherches peagogiques, Kinshasa
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- This item may be in the public domain. Its status has yet to be assessed.
- Resource Identifier:
- PP MS 42. S/38-S/48 ( SOAS manuscript number )
PP MS 42. S/38 ( SOAS manuscript number )
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